Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Dossier

Wersquore cool at schoolStudents pose for a cheerful selfie with their teacher on the first day of their academic year at Shri Krishna School in BorivliPataudi Medal for TendulkarAnderson Trophy winning captainWe had promised you an update in these columns June 8 Sunday midday on how the Pataudi familyrsquos legacy will be retained in some form in India vs England cricket series played on English soil even as the Pataudi Trophy has been reportedly retiredThen England cricket team Test captain Joe Root with the Pataudi Trophy at The Oval in London in 2018 PICGETTY IMAGESWhat did little birdie mean when it told us recently that the Pataudis father IAK and son MAK will still be honoured while the winner of the forthcoming fiveTest series accepts the TendulkarAnderson Trophy It meant a Pataudi Medal will be presented to the winning captain when the series concludes at the Oval in London in early AugustWhile the retirement news of the Pataudi Trophy initiated in honour of the two India captains has attracted criticism this diarist has learnt that Tendulkar before the storm emerged dialled a member of the Pataudi family and said that hersquod accept the honour of being part of the new trophy only if the Pataudi legacy is restored in some way Tendulkarrsquos suggestion was taken on board and thatrsquos how the Pataudi Medal took shapeWe were expecting a formal launch of the TendulkarAnderson Trophy during the recent Australia vs South Africa World Test Championship final but we hear Tendulkar was in no mood to make any public appearance at a time when world citizens and himself were grieving over the loss of 200plus lives in last weekrsquos air crash at Ahmedabad So we will now have three India captains remembered at the end of the forthcoming series And if Shubman Gillrsquos India ends up winning therersquoll be a fourthWheel power off the pitchRahul Ramugade centre receives the ebikes with his teammates at a Vile Parle venue PIC COURTESYSHALINE SERPESThe Mumbai Wheelchair Cricket Team is revving their swanky new ebikes this week ldquoTravelling with our cricket kits has always been a task I brought up the concern with the Rotary Club District 3141 Mumbai District when I was recently asked how they could help usrdquo team captain Rahul Ramugade told us ldquoThe joy on the teamrsquos face made our efforts worthwhilerdquo said club member Shaline Serpes who delivered four ebikes to the team last weekend through a CSR initiative While wersquore glad the teamrsquos wish came true the quick delivery is quite the googly ldquoThe bikes will also help us take up jobs as delivery partners Since we donrsquot get many opportunities to play and practice only on weekends many of us have taken up day jobs to earn a livingrdquo Ramugade revealed to usWestern Railwaysrsquo new wingsAreas outside the west exits of Mira Road railway station and right Khar railway station promise to be ideal garden spots PICS COURTESYINATUREWATCHThis diarist was delighted to learn that the midday impact extends to Mumbairsquos wild residents as well Following our January 25 report in The Guide about the 10 vibrant butterfly gardens in Navi Mumbai built by iNaturewatch and the Navi Mumbai Police Department new takers are already lining up ldquoSoon after the story was published Western Railway reached out to us enquiring if a similar project can be conceptualised for themWe obliged and after some planning set out to identify suitable stations Tentatively we have shortlisted 10 railway stations including Charni Road Prabhadevi Khar and Mira Road We are awaiting clearance from the railway authorities to begin workrdquo revealed founder Dr V Shubhalaxmi below With monsoon clouds over us the organisation is racing against time to build at least a handful of the gardens before AugustHum aapke hai coinRamjeet Yadav with the coin from Sri LankaCall it payback in your own coin or somebody elsersquos really Ramjeet Yadav a citybased cabbie originally from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh was taken aback to see that he was given a Rs 10 coin from Sri Lanka recently He told this diarist who travelled in his cab from Matunga ldquoI have been driving a cab in Mumbai since 1983 and I thought I had seen it all A Sri Lankan denomination coin is a new one for me though This lady passenger who got off at Matunga gave me the cab fare which had this Rs 10 coin from Sri Lanka She was in such a hurry she just gave it to me and ran offrdquo He peered at it for some time grumbled ldquoIt is no use to merdquo and then stated ldquoLet me see what I do with itrdquo before driving away Well what can one say except that foreign exchange comes in different ways or as wersquod like to say mdash lsquoHum aapke hai coinrsquo